Wait, does this mean I’m oppressing myself?  Or does it mean I’m freeing myself from institutionalized patriarchal oppression.  Because to be honest, I’d hate to think I’ve become a tool of the patriarchy—particularly if it means I’m going to have to a) suffer under the boot heel of my own misogyny, or b) feel the emancipated sting of rebuke to my culturally-conditioned phallocentrism.  Seriously.  A fella can only be so

Strong enough for a man . . . but made for a womyn. McQ at Q&O: Edward’s War Vote: “The Clintons made me do it” Be As I Am, Not As I Do (Twelve-Step Program Effective)

By this time, virtually all of the inhabitants of the political blogosphere know that vaginal supremacist Amanda Marcotte is now in charge of John Edwards’ campaign blog, but I thought it interesting that we’re beginning to see just what she brings to the table there. It certainly isn’t her vulgar, vituperative writing style, as that wouldn’t play well with a misogynist raping godbag like her new wealthy, white, southern, Christian

From Treacher. Fainting couch time.  Gleen thinks that a Byron York article title is so scandalous that it ought to draw a six-month right-wing moratorium over complaining about the incivilities of lefty language.  When will he ever finish that book on the etiquette of ventriloquism?  He’s just agape.  Gob-smacked.  His mouth’s just hanging open.  It’s almost as though his face has become a Fagina Dentata! It’s a phallus-free philosophy! Amanda

Obscurer of agency: In many other people’s minds, too, there is the unspoken assumption that what the United States does in Iraq is a fully determined action, whereas what other people do is simply a consequence of that action, with no independent or autonomous “agency” of its own. And: The habit of viewing Iraq as a crisis that only began in 2003—a lazy habit that is conditioned by the needs

So you don’t have to.  And watch . . . I’m going to do it really hard! S.F. Mayor Seeks Alcohol Counseling Next time I spend the month’s mortgage on a new computer, I’m checking into rehab, baby! Newsom last week acknowledged a sexual relationship with former secretary Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his now-former campaign manager, Alex Tourk. Why is that so funny?  I suspect it’s something deeply infantile,

Tom Watson (the blogger, not the golfer) mentions me as a woman hater (h/t Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom) for my characterization of Amanda Marcotte as a “delusional bitch,” which analysis I defend in the comments.  Meanwhile, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair links approvingly to him for comments regarding not Amanda, but Hillary.  As Watson also points out, Danny Glover of Beltway Blogroll took his suppositions about vanished Pandagon material

In David Carr’s “The Media Equation” piece from today’s NYT, he brings scrutiny to bear on Michael Bob Novak, whose blithe article on Niger triggered the Plame debacle.  Carr rightly observes that Washington insiders and journalists are agog at the fact that Novak seems to be waltzing through the fallout unscathed: “He is like Typhoid Mary,” Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, said of Mr.

Frequent commenter timmyb (née “neoconsstink”), a persistent “progressive” voice (and so I imagine, a recent convert to the foreign policy realism of Nixon and Kissinger and James Baker and GHW Bush), takes issue with my implied critique of that particular foreign policy posture—a posture, I should point out, that has prevented me, in years past, from supporting Republicans (Reagan, a former Democrat and an idealist being one exception; the other